PositiveWords Without BordersIn wry and quick strokes, this dialogue captures a young boy’s ernest inquiry and a father’s ironic but not altogether dishonest attempt to explain the origins of the Rwandan genocide. The father\'s answer is a formidable combination of humor and threat, at once a punch line and a reckoning of implausible violence, a nuanced complexity that is a distinguishing feature of Gaël Faye’s prose in his debut novel, Small Country.
